Arkillo
The best of both worlds
Michael Lyons
Last Journal Entry…
March 15, 2007. A new Web site called Midomi.com gives you a whole new avenue for showing off your vocal prowess. All you need is a computer, a microphone and a song that you can sing or hum a few bars of. The site is designed to recognize that song and cross-reference it with a library of songs that includes versions by other members (website). The VP of Business Development, Amir Arababi explains how it works. You can sing or hum a few bars of a song into a microphone of any quality and the search will give you the results that are close to what you sang, as well as the results of other members singing them. If you’re singing just to search, it’s not going to be added for the other uses, but if you’re singing to add to the database then it will be able to be listened to by other members of the website. In addition to it being a powerful search tool and networking community, the site is a good place to have your works out to get your vocals out there. There are many top lists, and apparently, record labels are contacting the site and asking for some of the users info to see if they can get something going. Primarily it’s users listening to users and giving them honest feedback about how they sing, when you’re going with the non-search function. There’s nearly two million tracks with around thirty seconds each. The goal of the website is to have the largest generated musical search library at the fingertips of the user. When put to the test, with an operatic song bit, the search turns up (after about two minutes), with “Smells like funk†by the Black Eyed Peas. Previously when the singer sang (as stated by him) it went into the correct song twice in a row. The program and site is a work in progress, but with the initial set of quaries having a 93% success rate, it’s a very good up and coming search engine.
Last Journal Entry…
March 15, 2007. A new Web site called Midomi.com gives you a whole new avenue for showing off your vocal prowess. All you need is a computer, a microphone and a song that you can sing or hum a few bars of. The site is designed to recognize that song and cross-reference it with a library of songs that includes versions by other members (website). The VP of Business Development, Amir Arababi explains how it works. You can sing or hum a few bars of a song into a microphone of any quality and the search will give you the results that are close to what you sang, as well as the results of other members singing them. If you’re singing just to search, it’s not going to be added for the other uses, but if you’re singing to add to the database then it will be able to be listened to by other members of the website. In addition to it being a powerful search tool and networking community, the site is a good place to have your works out to get your vocals out there. There are many top lists, and apparently, record labels are contacting the site and asking for some of the users info to see if they can get something going. Primarily it’s users listening to users and giving them honest feedback about how they sing, when you’re going with the non-search function. There’s nearly two million tracks with around thirty seconds each. The goal of the website is to have the largest generated musical search library at the fingertips of the user. When put to the test, with an operatic song bit, the search turns up (after about two minutes), with “Smells like funk†by the Black Eyed Peas. Previously when the singer sang (as stated by him) it went into the correct song twice in a row. The program and site is a work in progress, but with the initial set of quaries having a 93% success rate, it’s a very good up and coming search engine.
